Back-band



(No Model.)

A. J. HELM.

BACK BAND.

No. 376,091. Patented Jap'. 10, 1888..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT JEROME HELM, OE WINNSBOROUGH, TEXAS.

BACK-BAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,091, dated January 10, 1888.

Application filed May 20, 1887. Serial No. 233,912. (No model.)

had to the annexed drawings, making a part of.

this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in backbands; and it consists in certaindctails of construction, substantially as shown in the drawing and hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawing shows a perspective view of so much of the backhand as will illustrate the application of my invention thereto, A designating the band, which may be of any of the usual forms and of any suitable materiakprovided with the usual rings and straps, which it is not deemed necessary to describe. To this band is suitably connected a guard, B, of leather or other suitable material, so as to protect the material from which the band is made, and especially is this'important when cloth is used in constructing said band, as it prevents rubbing of the buckle and snap or other fastening on the cloth, and consequently protects it from wear.

To the backhand, at one end of the guard D, is secured a leather section, 0, which is provided with a loop, a, and buckle D, a strap, E, being connected to the buckle and its ends passing under the loop a. This strap may be adjusted by means of the buckle to increase or diminish its height, and may be provided with a snap, F, or not, as preferred- The strap E is provided with aprotector, G,

to prevent wear on the strap, said protector having slottedends I), through which the ends of the strap pass.

Any form of buckle and snap may be used, and when no snap is used the trace will pass through the loop formed by the strap E, the protector G preventing any wear on theleather thereof. The back-band is provided with the usual ring, H, to receive the plow-1ine, and the ring I to receive the backstrap. These rings, however, may be used or not, as found desirable, and I do not wish to be understood to confine myself to any special form of back-band or the material from which it may be composed, and therefore I reserve the right to make any modifications therein that come within ordinary mechanical skill.

I am aware that back-bands have been provided with a strengthening or protecting plate to which the trace-buckles have been attached, and do not seek to cover such, broadly.

Having now fully describedmy invention, what I claim as new, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

b The combination, with the back-band, the leather guard B,secured thereto,and the leather section 0, secured to said band at one end of said guard and provided with loop a and buckle D,'of the protector G, having slottedends b, and the strap E, connected with said buckle and having its ends passed through the slotted ends of said protector and under said loop, substantially as and for the purposes specified. In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT JEROME HELM. \Vitnesscs:

M- D. LANKFORD, W. H. SToKEs. 

